Washing-machine.



WASHING MACHINE.

(Application filed Nov. I 1900.) (N o M o d e l '//v VENTOR Gaul a2 ATTORNEYS FFlCE.

a rnnr ODON GUITAR, OF COLUMBIA, MISSOURI.

WASHING SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters -MACHINE.

Patent No. 707A09, dated August 19, 1902.

Applioation filed November 1,1900. Serial No. 35,105. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ODON GUITAR, residing at Columbia, in the county of Boone and State of Missouri, have made certain new and useful Improvements in lashing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in that class of washing-machines, adapted both for laundries and domestic use, in which a perforated rotary drum is adapted to rotate within a cylindrical casing, the clothes or other fabrics being alternately immersed in sudswater and raised out of the same at each rotation of the said drum.

The details of construction, arrangement, and operation of parts are as shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of the same. Fig.

3 is a perspective view of the clothes holder or receptacle.

The oblong cylindrical casin g A is support ed by four legs a and provided at the top with a large opening which is normally closed by a detachable cover a. The said casing may be constructed of wood or sheet metal. iVithin it is arranged the rotary clothes holder or receptacle B. The same is constructed of thin sheet metal or wood, in the form of the Greek cross, each hollow arm or section 1) thereof being oblong and rectangular and perforated on three sides to allow water to enter and discharge freely. One side of each section b has a cover I), which is hinged at the inner edge and held closed when the holder is being rotated by means of sliding bolts N, or other suitable fastening. A shaft C passes through and is duly secured in the center or hollow central portion of the clothes-holder B and has its bearings in the ends of the casing A.

I propose in practice to operate-that is, rotate-the clothes-holder B by any suitable means, the same depending on the size of the machine and the power used. I illustrate means adapted for manual use, the same consisting of spur-gears D, fixed on the ends of shaft 0, and toothed segments E, which engage said gears D and are provided with leverarms E, pivoted to the ends of the casing A, and connected at their outer ends by a rod or bar F. The operator seizes the said bar and by alternately pushing upward and pulling downward on the same the levers E and segments E are vibrated, with the result that the clothes-receptacle B is rotated first in one direction and then the other.

In using the machine the casing A is filled with hot suds-water to a point indicated by a, Fig. Q-that is to say, to a level with the lower sides of two opposite compartments 1) when the same are in horizontal position. Steam may also be introduced in machines used in laundries. Then the clothes to be washed being placed in the several compartments and the doors of the latter secured by fastenings, the clothes-receptacle B is oscillated, as before stated, whereby its several compartments are alternately carried into and out of the suds-water. In such operation it will be seen that one of the flat sides of each compartment strikes upon and passes through the water in such manner that the latteris forced through its openings with great rapidity and into and through the clothes and out on the opposite sides of the compartment. In other words, a current or currents of hot suds flow through the compartments and the clothes contained therein. The form of the clothesholder or the arrangement of its rectangular compartments radially to the shaft, whereby they present flat surfaces to the Water, with parallel rear sides, enables the water to enter and leave the compartments with greater rapidity and force than is practicable with a circular or cylindrical shape. Experience has demonstrated that the arrangement of the compartments 1) at right angles to each other, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, is the most officaciousthat is to say, if the number of compartments were such as to necessitate their arrangement ata less angle to eachother them for due action of the water on the clothes. In brief, it is requisite for the best effect that the fiat side of each compartment shall strike upon the water with a considerable degree of force and that the space between it and the adjacent compartment shall be sufficient to allow a free circulation of water. This cannot be obtained if a great number of compartments be employed. Further, while the arrangement of two such com due space would not be provided between v partments directly opposite each other would have the same efiect as the arrangement of four at right angles to each other the number would be too small to accommodate a considerable quantity of clothes. The compartments being successively raised out of the suds and remaining out of the same during quite half the rotation of the holder B time is allowed for the bulk of the water contained in the meshes or interstices of the clothes to run out before the clothes are again submerged, when they are again acted on by new currents of water, as before, with the result that they are rapidly washed or cleansed without rubbing or appreciable wear. It is further apparent that in the course of rotation of the clothes-holder B the clothes are tossed and turned, so that different surfaces are constantly presented to the action of the water. It is further apparent that this result is promoted by the quickly-alternating reversals of rotation of the clothes-holder B.

I attach to one of the outer angles of each hollow section or compartment b of the holder B a double lip or curved flange G (see Figs.

2 and 3) for taking up suds-water, which, as the compartments rise from the latter, flows through the adjacent openings in the peripheral sides of said compartments and is show ered upon the clothes. The said flange being double and turned in opposite directions it is apparent its action is the same whichever be the direction of rotation of the holder B.

What I claim is In awashing-machine of the class described, the combination, with the cylindrical sudsholder, of the rotatable clothes-holder comprising four radial, rectangular receptacles having perforations in their parallel sides and outer ends, and curved flanges which are arranged at the outer corners of said receptacles, their convex sides being placed in contact and thus curving in opposite directions, as shown and described for the purpose specifled.

ODON GUITAR.

Witnesses:

SOLON C. KEMoN, AMos W. HART. 

